On 2 March 2014 12:30, John Griffith <john.griff...@solidfire.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I just wanted to send out a quick note on a topic that came up recently. > Unfortunately the folks that I'd like to read this most; don't participate > on the ML typically, but I'd at least like to raise some community > awareness.
Thank you. Perhaps you should do a talk at ATL about this - one aimed at vendors:) > We all know OpenStack is growing at a rapid pace and has a lot of promise, > so much so that there's an enormous field of vendors and OS distributions > that are focusing a lot of effort and marketing on the project. > > Something that came up recently in the Cinder project is that one of the > backend device vendors wasn't happy with a feature that somebody was working > on and contributed a patch for. Instead of providing a meaningful review > and suggesting alternatives to the patch they set up meetings with other > vendors leaving the active members of the community out and picked things > apart in their own format out of the public view. Nobody from the core > Cinder team was involved in these discussions or meetings (at least that > I've been made aware of). :( thats very sad. Did they comment on the review at all? Not that it really matters, but I'm curious how the pathology exhibits itself. > I don't want to go into detail about who, what, where etc at this point. I > instead, I want to point out that in my opinion this is no way to operate in > an Open Source community. Collaboration is one thing, but ambushing other > peoples work is entirely unacceptable in my opinion. OpenStack provides a > plethora of ways to participate and voice your opinion, whether it be this > mailing list, the IRC channels which are monitored daily and also host a > published weekly meeting for most projects. Of course when in doubt you're > welcome to send me an email at any time with questions or concerns that you > have about a patch. In any case however the proper way to address concerns > about a submitted patch is to provide a review for that patch. +1000 > Everybody has a voice and the ability to participate, and the most effective > way to do that is by thorough, timely and constructive code reviews. +1000 -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
